New Delhi: The Election Commission has deputed 26 senior IAS officers from Madhya Pradesh as central observers for poll bound duties during the assembly elections in Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Puducherry scheduled between April and May this year.
The IAS officers are Nikunj Shrivastava, Ajit Kumar, Rajeev Sharma, Alka Shrivastava, Sanjeev Singh, Jitendra Singh Raje, Shashank Mishra, Bharat Yadav, Umesh Kumar, Dhanraju S and Abhishek Singh, Ashish Kumar, Shashibhushan Singh, Jagdish Chandra Jatia, Ram Pratap Singh Jadon, Ashok Kumar Chouhan, Sapna Nigam, Chandrashekhar Walimbe, Dinesh Shrivastava, Chote Singh, Sarita Bala Om Prajapati, Gautam Singh, Hari Singh Meena, Girish Sharma, Krishnadev Tripathi and Anurag Verma.
General administration department earlier issued orders in this regard. It was earlier preceeded by a virtual meeting with the administrators in the state secretariat.
So far no specific state has been assigned to these officers and according to the Election Commission, a proper duty chart of these officials briefing about their roles and responsibilities will be shared after the meeting. The EC is also likely to inform the Madhya Pradesh government about deploying these officers as central observers.
